Hey Roselee! Funny thing is, when I went to go cut them back a bit ago, looks like the rain beat them down and the stems were buried under the soil. the center of the plants look spaced out or spread out. there is clay now sitting on top of the crowns as if they sunk in. I don't know if that makes sense.

oh and yes these are all baby plants so that might be it as the stems are still green and flimsy.

Yes, I get the picture. Let us know how they do after you remove the stuff covering the crown and stems and prop them up a bit.

Wishing you success with the rescue.

With our super weird spring (and continuing weird summer) they probably just don't know what to think. I'm cutting things back a bit to let the roots have a breather and what lives, lives. With the hotter weather I'll bet the powdery mildew will clear up. I've got mildew on plants that have NEVER had it before.

Krystal when I posted previously about my rock rose having mildew, I think Mara was taken aback, just a little.

When I was walking tonight, I saw oak saplings with powdery mildew. I also saw some on my turk's cap, which is a first for me.

WOW ,mildew on oak! Now , this is taken aback! LOL. I think that SA has had more rain than me and your dirt is heavier that the dirt I have . I have mildew on normal things like Armenian cucumber and winter squash.

There was mildew on most everything here last week, I used my car washer and put baking soda in the cup and sprayed for a day and a half

I have never seen this, even in '07

I've seen some sticky-sweet drops on tree leaves (bees coming to it lately) and some leaves have dark stuff growing on them. I'm thinking maybe honeydew is involved. There's some insects on plant stems...had icky white, cottony stuff a while back. Maybe they're all connected?

These oak saplings were under the canopy of bigger trees. Probably never get out of the shade.

Sorry the wet spring and early summer are taking such a toll on your plants. We're fortunate to be well drained near the top of a hill, so the only leaves browning a bit from
too much water are some of the salvias, columbines, and possibly the American
beautyberry. Of course this hill "advantage" turns against us when we try to keep things moist during the hottest summer stretches.

The heavy sheets of rain that came through our Dallas neighborhood with the cool front yesterday evening did the most damage so far this year. Weird that it was very localized. Split the gaura flat... a first... and beat down the summer phlox, bee balm, Maximilian sunflower, American germander, and canna. The lawns were starting to look thirsty, so was still nice to get the rain and the plants will eventually recover.

Super weird. Besides losing two trees and numerous potted annuals, my canna's haven't recovered. They're usually 6' tall and flowering by now, but this year I've only got a couple and they're about 2' tall!